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The $lumdance $ponsorship Center

	Slumlord Slumdance's most prestigious sponsorship level. This sponsorship includes the privilege of renaming the event after your company or organization. Not just, for example, "Nike Presents the 1997 Slumdance Experience." Rather, "The 1997 Nike Experience." This sponsorship also guarantees that the event program will be printed in the colors of your organization's logo. In fact, at this level you can even have someone at your organization be placed in charge of the program, poster and other design elements of the event literature, so you can be sure that Slumdance presents a unified and positive image for your company. But that's not all. Like Sundance and Slamdance, we plan to force our audiences to view commercials before each film presentation (much like Los Angeles movie audiences must sit through those illuminating and witty L.A. Times advertisements). But we'll take this concept just a little bit further. Not only will the audiences of Slumdance view your commercial (which can be up to, say, forty minutes long), but also a representative of Slumdance will be on hand to lead a sort of "cheer" for your company before each screening. Only when the audience has exhibited a sufficient amount of enthusiasm in repeating, for example, "I've tried the rest, and Acme products are the best!" will the screening be allowed to start. Extreme? Certainly. But your company deserves only the most innovative and imposing advertisement strategy, and we aim to give it to you.
	Social Worker Slumdance has reserved this special sponsorship category for quasi non-profit organizations seeking to boost their reputations as benevolent entities in the independent film scene. We all know that there is a truckload of money to be made from the indie community, but the problem is convincing struggling credit-card filmmakers and others that while you're taking their money you're really "helping" them. We have a novel solution to this problem. Instead of a positioning such as "The Underground Collective is proud to support Slumdance," we'll do the reverse: "Slumdance is proud to support the Underground Collective." While you are (of course) paying us a sponsorship fee, we'll make it look like it is we who are supporting you. And the Slumdance staff will be sure at key seminars and other events to say something like, "Oh yeah, we like to help out the Underground Collective as much as we can. They're really doing terrific, important work--and it's all from the heart, too."
	Honorary Vagrant This is our "basic" sponsorship level. As an Honorary Vagrant, you'll be allowed to set up a "seminar" that will seem to offer, say, an informative look at "new media" but that is really a live infommercial for your company's products. You may even charge admission for your "seminar"--in fact, we recommend charging a fee to enhance your credibility. We can't claim this idea as an original Slumdance grift, as many festivals have been using it for years. But the good news is that nobody's caught on yet!
	Pimp As a Slumdance Pimp you will have the privilege of dressing all of the filmmakers involved in the event in clothes bearing your company's logo and/or slogan. You know how race-car drivers wear those nifty jumpsuits? It'll be like that. Then you can order the filmmakers to "walk the streets" of Park City for you. (Should the streetwalking activity result in any revenue, your take will be the traditional 80 percent.)
	Wino Slumdance's lowest sponsorship level is quite a bargain! If you become a Wino at our event, the staff will shout out the name of your company during the quiet parts of the films in Slumdance.
	See also our "Your Award Here!" special offer. to the Slum